I easily reproduce this on two different systems, and I've been trying to work through it for two months. One system is an AMD Phenom 9650. The other is a 2x quad-core core2-based Xeon. In both cases, when I run emerge to update, the system is hosed immediately after the newly-compiled glibc files are put into place. In the Phenom case, the emerge command is "emerge --jobs --load-average=8 --verbose --tree --keep-going --update --deep --newuse @world". In the Xeon case, the emerge command is similar: "emerge --jobs --load-average=16 --verbose --tree --keep-going --update --deep --newuse @world" I'm also able to reproduce this when "--with-bdeps=y" is present, and when "--jobs" and "--load-average" are absent. The point of failure is illustrated by this emission from emerge: * Messages for package sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3: * The ebuild phase 'postrm' has been killed by signal 11. * The 'postrm' phase of the 'sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3' package has failed * with exit value 1. * * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named * 'glibc-2.14.1-r3.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/sys- * libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3' directory. If necessary, manually remove the * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory. * * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary. * Removal of the ebuild file will cause the pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm() * removal phases to be skipped entirely. This *appears* to indicate that the process of installing sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 breaks the system midway through, causing the continuation of the installation of the same to fail. A while back, while digging into this, ISTR determining that fundamental libraries (ld, libc or both, I don't remember, and it's very difficult to figure out without a static ldd or gdb) weren't being loaded into the process at the proper base address. I've discussed this from time to time (and to some small length) in the gentoo-user mailing list. Reference thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/256545
emerge --info: Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.3.0-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.3.0-gentoo-r1-x86_64-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-lang/python: 3.2.3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.6 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r3 Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync: rsync://rsync29.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 ABI="amd64" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.3" ACCEPT_PROPERTIES="*" ALSA_CARDS="" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BOOTSTRAP_USE="cxx unicode multilib" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb3" CFLAGS_amd64="-m64" CFLAGS_x32="-mx32" CFLAGS_x86="-m32" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_x32="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules/* *.py[co]" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb3" DEFAULT_ABI="amd64" DISPLAY=":0" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EDITOR="/bin/nano" ELIBC="glibc" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=8 --verbose --tree --keep-going" EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10" EPREFIX="" EROOT="/" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FETCHCOMMAND="wget -t 3 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC="rsync -avP "${URI}" "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}"" FETCHCOMMAND_SFTP="bash -c "x=\${2#sftp://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port=22 ; exec sftp -P \${port} \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" sftp "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" FETCHCOMMAND_SSH="bash -c "x=\${2#ssh://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port=22 ; exec rsync --rsh=\"ssh -p\${port}\" -avP \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" rsync "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GCC_SPECS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="" HOME="/root" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.21.1/info" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LC_COLLATE="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LDFLAGS_amd64="-m elf_x86_64" LDFLAGS_x32="-m elf32_x86_64" LDFLAGS_x86="-m elf_i386" LESS="-R -M --shift 5" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe %s" LIBDIR_amd64="lib64" LIBDIR_amd64_fbsd="lib64" LIBDIR_n32="lib32" LIBDIR_n64="lib64" LIBDIR_o32="lib" LIBDIR_ppc="lib32" LIBDIR_ppc64="lib64" LIBDIR_s390="lib32" LIBDIR_s390x="lib64" LIBDIR_sparc32="lib32" LIBDIR_sparc64="lib64" LIBDIR_x32="libx32" LIBDIR_x86="lib32" LIBDIR_x86_fbsd="lib32" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" LOGNAME="root" LS_COLORS="rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:" MAIL="/var/mail/root" MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load 8" MANPATH="/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.21.1/man" MULTILIB_ABIS="amd64 x86" MULTILIB_STRICT_DENY="64-bit.*shared object" MULTILIB_STRICT_DIRS="/lib32 /lib /usr/lib32 /usr/lib /usr/kde/*/lib32 /usr/kde/*/lib /usr/qt/*/lib32 /usr/qt/*/lib /usr/X11R6/lib32 /usr/X11R6/lib" MULTILIB_STRICT_EXEMPT="(perl5|gcc|gcc-lib|binutils|eclipse-3|debug|portage|udev)" NETBEANS="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml" NOCOLOR="true" PAGER="/usr/bin/less" PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc sparc64-freebsd ppc-openbsd x86-openbsd ppc64 x86-winnt x86-fbsd ppc-aix alpha arm x86-freebsd s390 amd64 arm-linux x86-macos x64-openbsd ia64-hpux hppa x86-netbsd ppc64-linux x86-cygwin amd64-linux ia64-linux x86 sparc-solaris x64-freebsd sparc64-solaris x86-linux x64-macos sparc m68k-mint ia64 mips ppc-macos x86-interix hppa-hpux amd64-fbsd x64-solaris m68k sh x86-solaris sparc-fbsd" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/bin" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary echo" PORTAGE_FETCH_CHECKSUM_TRY_MIRRORS="5" PORTAGE_FETCH_RESUME_MIN_SIZE="350K" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_GPG_SIGNING_COMMAND="gpg --sign --clearsign --yes --default-key "${PORTAGE_GPG_KEY}" --homedir "${PORTAGE_GPG_DIR}" "${FILE}"" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_OVERRIDE_EPREFIX="" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/pym" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="-1" PORTAGE_SYNC_STALE="30" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTAGE_VERBOSE="1" PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" PORT_LOGDIR_CLEAN="find "${PORT_LOGDIR}" -type f ! -name "summary.log*" -mtime +7 -delete" PROFILE_ONLY_VARIABLES="ARCH ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" PWD="/" PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE="1" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RESUMECOMMAND="wget -c -t 3 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" RESUMECOMMAND_RSYNC="rsync -avP "${URI}" "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}"" RESUMECOMMAND_SSH="bash -c "x=\${2#ssh://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port=22 ; exec rsync --rsh=\"ssh -p\${port}\" -avP \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" rsync "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" ROOT="/" ROOTPATH="/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3" RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" SHELL="/bin/bash" SHLVL="3" STY="4064.pts-2.Gentoo-2012" SUDO_COMMAND="/bin/su" SUDO_GID="100" SUDO_UID="1000" SUDO_USER="gentoo" SYMLINK_LIB="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync29.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" SYS_USE_AAPI="openal alsa" SYS_USE_COMPRESSION="bzip2 gzip lzma lzo szip zlib" SYS_USE_CPU="mmx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 openmp opencl cuda posix nptl multilib smp lapack" SYS_USE_DONOTWANT="-pulseaudio -gnome -oss -berkdb -gdbm" SYS_USE_GAPI="gd sdl ncurses xcb opengl v4l vdpau xv X dri" SYS_USE_LANG="" SYS_USE_MEDIA="imagemagick jpeg jpeg2k openexr png raw svg tiff wmf mng aac cdda flac gsm lame mad mikmod shorten speex timidity vorbis mp3 midi css dv ffmpeg theora x264 xvid matroska mms mp4 mpeg ogg pdf quicktime vcd sound cddb encode exif gimp libsamplerate mtp ppds sndfile sox wavpack xmp latex" SYS_USE_MEDIA_AUDIO="aac cdda flac gsm lame mad mikmod shorten speex timidity vorbis mp3 midi" SYS_USE_MEDIA_CONTAINERS="matroska mms mp4 mpeg ogg pdf quicktime vcd" SYS_USE_MEDIA_GFX="imagemagick jpeg jpeg2k openexr png raw svg tiff wmf mng" SYS_USE_MEDIA_VIDEO="css dv ffmpeg theora x264 xvid" SYS_USE_NET="avahi curl ftp geoip gnutls ipv6 libwww rdesktop samba sockets ssl tcpd vnc" SYS_USE_OTHER="acl alsa cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr firefox gmp iconv nsplugin offensive pcre pda rss spell taglib truetype videos vim-syntax xattr xcomposite xft xinerama xml xscreensaver fontconfig qt3support phonon" SYS_USE_PLATFORM="acpi dbus fam hddtemp ieee1394 joystick libnotify lm_sensors pam readline sharedmem syslog sysvipc threads udev unicode usb" SYS_USE_TOOLKITS="gtk" TERM="screen" TERMCAP="SC|screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\ :DO=\E[%dB:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:bs:bt=\E[Z:\ :cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:ct=\E[3g:\ :do=^J:nd=\E[C:pt:rc=\E8:rs=\Ec:sc=\E7:st=\EH:up=\EM:\ 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tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USER="root" USERLAND="GNU" USERNAME="root" USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CALLIGRA_FEATURES CAMERAS COLLECTD_PLUGINS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS CURL_SSL DRACUT_MODULES DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FFTOOLS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS GPSD_PROTOCOLS GRUB_PLATFORMS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS NETBEANS_MODULES NGINX_MODULES_HTTP NGINX_MODULES_MAIL OFED_DRIVERS OPENMPI_FABRICS OPENMPI_OFED_FEATURES OPENMPI_RM PHP_TARGETS PYTHON_TARGETS QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS QEMU_USER_TARGETS RUBY_TARGETS SANE_BACKENDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS VOICEMAIL_STORAGE XFCE_PLUGINS XTABLES_ADDONS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:repo:env.d" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" WINDOW="0" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" _="/usr/bin/emerge" ftp_proxy="http://wash.firefly.michael.mol.name:8123" http_proxy="http://wash.firefly.michael.mol.name:8123"
make.conf: CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb3" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load 8" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=8 --verbose --tree --keep-going" FEATURES="splitdebug" LINGUAS="en" SYS_USE_CPU="mmx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 openmp opencl cuda posix nptl multilib smp lapack" SYS_USE_LANG="" SYS_USE_TOOLKITS="gtk" SYS_USE_GAPI="gd sdl ncurses xcb opengl v4l vdpau xv X dri" SYS_USE_AAPI="openal alsa" SYS_USE_OTHER="acl alsa cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr firefox gmp iconv nsplugin offensive pcre pda rss spell taglib truetype videos vim-syntax xattr xcomposite xft xinerama xml xscreensaver fontconfig qt3support phonon" SYS_USE_COMPRESSION="bzip2 gzip lzma lzo szip zlib" SYS_USE_MEDIA_GFX="imagemagick jpeg jpeg2k openexr png raw svg tiff wmf mng" SYS_USE_MEDIA_AUDIO="aac cdda flac gsm lame mad mikmod shorten speex timidity vorbis mp3 midi" SYS_USE_MEDIA_VIDEO="css dv ffmpeg theora x264 xvid" SYS_USE_MEDIA_CONTAINERS="matroska mms mp4 mpeg ogg pdf quicktime vcd" SYS_USE_MEDIA="${SYS_USE_MEDIA_GFX} ${SYS_USE_MEDIA_AUDIO} ${SYS_USE_MEDIA_VIDEO} ${SYS_USE_MEDIA_CONTAINERS} sound cddb encode exif gimp libsamplerate mtp ppds sndfile sox wavpack xmp latex" SYS_USE_NET="avahi curl ftp geoip gnutls ipv6 libwww rdesktop samba sockets ssl tcpd vnc" SYS_USE_PLATFORM="acpi dbus fam hddtemp ieee1394 joystick libnotify lm_sensors pam readline sharedmem syslog sysvipc threads udev unicode usb" SYS_USE_DONOTWANT="-pulseaudio -gnome -oss -berkdb -gdbm" USE="${SYS_USE_CPU} ${SYS_USE_LANG} ${SYS_USE_TOOLKITS} ${SYS_USE_GAPI} ${SYS_USE_AAPI} ${SYS_USE_OTHER} ${SYS_USE_MEDIA} ${SYS_USE_COMPRESSION} ${SYS_USE_NET} ${SYS_USE_PLATFORM} ${SYS_USE_DONOTWANT}" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" SYNC="rsync://rsync29.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" ALSA_CARDS="" ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.3" # PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://binhost.ossdl.de/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/" #PKGDIR="/mnt/r5/pkgdir" #PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/r5/portage_tmp" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
cat /proc/cpuinfo for one of the affected systems (inara): processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor stepping : 3 microcode : 0x1000095 cpu MHz : 2310.608 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock bogomips : 4621.21 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor stepping : 3 microcode : 0x1000095 cpu MHz : 2310.608 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 3 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock bogomips : 4621.21 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate processor : 2 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor stepping : 3 microcode : 0x1000095 cpu MHz : 2310.608 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 2 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 2 initial apicid : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock bogomips : 4621.21 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor stepping : 3 microcode : 0x1000095 cpu MHz : 2310.608 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 1 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 3 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock bogomips : 4621.21 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
Created attachment 316071 [details] lshw for inara
On one occasion on inara, the initial portion of the emerge that led to the system failure looked like this: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r2 USE="cxx fortran gtk* mudflap (multilib) nls nptl openmp (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) -gcj -graphite (-hardened) (-libssp) -lto -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla" 64,862 kB [nomerge ] sys-apps/busybox-1.20.1 USE="ipv6 pam -livecd -make-symlinks -math -mdev -savedconfig (-selinux) -sep-usr -static" [ebuild R ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.5 USE="cracklib nls vim-syntax* -audit -berkdb* -debug -nis (-selinux) -test" 1,584 kB [ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 USE="gd* (multilib) -debug (-hardened) -profile (-selinux) -vanilla" 16,064 kB [nomerge ] virtual/ssh-0 USE="-minimal" [ebuild R ] net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4 USE="X* hpn pam tcpd -X509 -kerberos -ldap -libedit (-selinux) -skey -static" 1,106 kB [nomerge ] virtual/man-0 [nomerge ] sys-apps/man-1.6g USE="lzma nls" [ebuild R ] sys-apps/groff-1.21 USE="X* -examples" LINGUAS="-ja" 3,774 kB [ebuild R ] net-misc/wget-1.13.4-r1 USE="gnutls* ipv6 nls ssl -debug -idn -ntlm -static" 1,420 kB [nomerge ] dev-python/pyxattr-0.5.0 USE="-test" [nomerge ] dev-python/setuptools-0.6.21 [nomerge ] dev-lang/python-3.2.3 USE="ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads (wide-unicode) xml -build -doc -examples -gdbm* -sqlite -tk -wininst" [nomerge ] app-admin/python-updater-0.10 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.49 USE="(ipc) xattr* -build -doc -epydoc (-pypy1_9) -python2 -python3 (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 786 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/pyxattr-0.5.0 USE="-test" 20 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/setuptools-0.6.21 391 kB [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-3.2.3 USE="ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads (wide-unicode) xml -build -doc -examples -gdbm* -sqlite -tk -wininst" 8,775 kB [nomerge ] net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4 USE="X* hpn pam tcpd -X509 -kerberos -ldap -libedit (-selinux) -skey -static" [nomerge ] virtual/pam-0 [nomerge ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.5 USE="cracklib nls vim-syntax* -audit -berkdb* -debug -nis (-selinux) -test" [ebuild N ] app-vim/pam-syntax-20060424 3 kB [ebuild R ] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0j USE="gmp* (sse2) zlib -bindist -kerberos -rfc3779 -static-libs -test" 3,958 kB [ebuild N ] x11-apps/xauth-1.0.6 USE="ipv6" 131 kB [nomerge ] sys-apps/groff-1.21 USE="X* -examples" LINGUAS="-ja" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.9 USE="-doc -static-libs" 636 kB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXpm-3.5.9 USE="-static-libs" 375 kB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXmu-1.1.0 USE="ipv6 -doc -static-libs" 353 kB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXext-1.3.0 USE="-doc -static-libs" 334 kB [ebuild R ] sys-process/psmisc-22.16 USE="X* ipv6 nls (-selinux)" 455 kB [ebuild R ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.14 USE="acl gmp* nls unicode xattr* -caps (-selinux) -static -vanilla" 4,846 kB [nomerge ] sys-process/psmisc-22.16 USE="X* ipv6 nls (-selinux)" [nomerge ] sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1 USE="acl cxx nls openmp -doc -emacs -git" [ebuild R ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0_rc1 USE="ipv6 lzma* readline -debug -doc -examples -icu -python -static-libs -test" 4,795 kB [ebuild R ] net-misc/rsync-3.0.9 USE="acl iconv ipv6 xattr* -static" 775 kB
Created attachment 316075 [details] build.log for glibc Expands to about 20M.
The next time I wipe the system and try again, I'm going to see if I can write a script to automate it. Repeatedly walking through the same way through the same steps in the handbook is tiresome to do by hand. If I get the script to repro it, I *think* it should allow other people to reproduce the same issue in, e.g. an amd64 VM.
Created attachment 316207 [details] Script reproducing the problem This script reproduces the problem. It assumes a few things. 1) You have an proxy server such as squid available. 2) You have a separate /boot partition, already loaded with a kernel and initramfs. 3) You have a swap partition. 4) You have a partition dedicated to /home If a new stage 3 tarball comes out, you may want to modify the "STAGE_BALL" setting. I *highly* recommend having a local rsync mirror. I set one up specifically so I wouldn't hammer the servers while writing and testing the scripts and configurations. The script has two parts. The first half runs prior to chroot. Just prior to chroot, it writes out a second-stage script into the root filesystem and has the chroot bash session execute it.
Michael, drop the -ggdb3. I'm not sure if the toolchain guys have a bug open, but I have noted before that -g3 is incompatible with glibc. See fifth parameter in http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/01/im-not-an-happy-maintainer-working-with-cmake
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 409795 ***
Dropping the '3' from '-ggdb3' functions as a workaround. Thanks, Diego.
